Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Q: special files (sockets etc) backed up to "nodev" mounted media

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Jens Benecke <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:07:04 +0200

> I started backing up my system to a local directory and later this directory
> was remounted with "nosuid,nodev,noexec". Everything is fine though, except
> for this
..
> What is this? Do I need to worry?

For some reason socket file names can't be as long as normal file names.
See http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/error_policy.html for what a
SpecialFileError is.  You probably don't need to worry.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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